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Consider adding a trend categorisation component to evaluation

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
analytics, data

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the forecast evaluation code and how posterior draws and hospital-admission observations are represented; the work is done when trend categories are defined and evaluated with a Brier score.

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Description

We could classify each forecast from each model as increasing, decreasing, or stable based on the trajectory of hospital admissions.

This could either be something like probability increasing, probability decreasing, probability stable (which would be based on the posterior draws)

Then we could evaluate the trend by categorising the observation into one of 3 bins and using the Brier score to evaluate.

Dominant language
R
Stars
4
Forks
1
Avg merge
1d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
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